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Dream

6:57am JST Tuesday 25 November 2008 (day 14125)

Saw Adam Lock walking away from me down the hall. I knew he might be drafted to the war soon, so I gave him a long-distance reiki blessing to help him come back intact. I pretended to be asleep when he arrived at my room to say bye, but I hoped he would talk to me to wake me up. He didn't, but just said a silent goodbye, and then left. I woke up a bit later, wondering where I had left my suitcase. I got up, put a red towel around my birthday suit and found my suitcase was already on my bed; I had been using it as a pillow. The room in which I had slept was rather large for just one person. I went to another room and turned on the light. Gene was in there sleeping, so I tried to turn off the light, but the switch wasn't working the way I thought it would. Finally got the switch turned off, and then went into the main room where the plan for the day was being explained to everyone. How did I not know about this meeting? Why didn't anyone wake everyone up before the meeting? I guess it's okay to sleep through it given that Gene and someone else was still sleeping.

I couldn't hear anything in the meeting anyway, but Mandy Jacobson on TV reacted to me coming into the room, so I waved back at her, and then Abbey Tennis started speaking as Mandy Jacobson on TV started holding up a beaker of transluscent black liquid. Abbey said, "earlier today we showed this brown liquid, but it appears black on the TV." I wasn't sure what was the point of this information, but they explained it.

Work shmerk

7:03pm JST Tuesday 25 November 2008 (day 14125)

argh

I've been working on the billing project for like 2.5 months now, maybe 3. The project started with Malek saying "just make it really quick and dirty" but instead of doing that I made it good and functional.

I got kudos for that, and then it was determined that the project could be tied to the actual system and turn off clients' websites if they haven't paid. Great! Andrew even designed a way to connect the databases, and I've re-tooled 2.5 or 3 weeks of work (that may be an exaggeration) to get the new technique in place.

I *almost* got the system to a state that Sho could use it to bill our clients this month, but because it will take him some time to get used to the system and make sure all the data is correct, he/we decided not to use it. So I went back to cleaning up the GUI and have been working on getting past one point on which I've been stuck for a bit: getting mootools to populate some fields into sortable table rows after getting some data with a JSON request.

Because it's taken Sho all day to get the invoicing done with his old system, Malek is back to saying, "I want to redo the whole system; I don't even want to worry about telling them what they're being billed for."

Ah fuck. That's exactly the part that I've been working so hard to finish. Which way will it be? Throw away all my code? Keep going and make something cool?

8:34pm JST Tuesday 25 November 2008 (day 14125)

Got the bit of code finished. One problem that took me a while to realize: I had essentially this code:

var css_name = 'class';
var css_value = 'classname';

css_object = { css_name : css_value };

var myTD = new Element('td', css_object);

but myTD ended up being <td css_name='classname'>

wtf?

That totally killed my plan to generalize the code (the first two lines are simplified versions of code that was being read from DB and parsed, etc.). bah.

Thanks to Andrew for helping me get it solved. I hope I survive well without him over the next 6 work days (he'll be in Kagoshima getting paid to get drugged).